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Andy Partridge On Mac n Cheese

Andy Partridge (from XTC), answers a reader question in an interview over on PopDose:

Q: Would you consider enjoying a spot of homemade macaroni-n-cheese, my treat, if I ever make it back to England?

A: No. I can’t stand macaroni and cheese. I don’t eat cow cheese anymore. I only eat sheep’s cheese. And I never had a thing for macaroni and cheese. They seem to not complement each other. It was like some down and out had thrown up on lots of bits of rubber tubing that you’d just finished an enema with. “Here! Here’s your dinner! Enema tube and tramp vom!”

Sweet.

The Waiting...

... is the hardest part.

Saturday, after my horrible NAS failure, I rushed over to my local TigerDirectCompUSA store to see if they had a replacement NAS enclosure for my disks in stock. They didn't. But they could order one and waive the shipping cost. Since that was $50 worth of shipping, I went for it. And now it's here. And I've pulled the disks out of the old box and plugged them into the new one. And it's doing a file system check (which looks like it will take an hour or so). And I'm waiting... and waiting. Come on NetGear, do me right...

Later...

Holy f.f..f.f.ff.f...fff...fuck. It worked! NetGear FTW!

The "BLT From Scratch" Challenge

Ruhlman.com:

A collective challenge for all of you who really love to cook: Make a BLT from scratch. No, this does not mean raising a piglet for the bacon or growing your own wheat to grind into flour. Yes, extra credit for either, but I want this to be a challenge that everyone can accept, whether you live in a Manhattan walk-up or rural North Carolina, Alaska or suburban splendor: make a BLT from scratch, photograph it and send the photo to me. If you blog, blog about it (and please link back to this post to encourage others to accept the challenge).

From scratch means: You grow your tomato, you grow your lettuce, you cure your own bacon or pancetta, you bake your own bread (wild yeast preferred and gets higher marks but is not required), you make your own mayo. All other embellishments, creative interpretations of the BLT welcome.

If I liked BLTs, I'd consider trying it.

Exile in Paradise?

MSNBC:

The remote Pacific island nation of Palau said Wednesday it has agreed to a U.S. request to temporarily resettle up to 17 Chinese Muslims now held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center on Cuba.

Palau President Johnson Toribiong said the administration of President Barack Obama made the request last week and that his country was "honored and proud" to resettle the detainees from China's Uighur minority as a humanitarian gesture.

His archipelago, with a population of about 20,000, will accept up to 17 of the detainees subject to periodic review, Toribiong said in a statement released to The Associated Press.

Damn. Just look at that place! While it's not their home, and they've had to endure terrible things (done in our names), being sent to live in what looks like the nicest place on earth doesn't seem like a completely terrible outcome.